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Study supports 'urgent' need for worldwide ban on lead-based paint

... than 75 percent of the consumer paint tested from countries without controls--including India, Malaysia and Ch...vels exceeding U.S. regulations. Collectively, the countries represent more than 2.5 billion people. In Singapore, which enforces the same lead restriction on ne...

Study finds that a woman's chances of having twins can be modified by diet

...products with other protein sources, especially in countries that allow growth hormone administration to cattle," said Dr. Steinman. Dr. Steinman has been studying factors that cause or contribute to twinning ever since he delivered a rare set of identical quadruplets in 1997 at LIJ Medical Center. His most ...

New tiger report release: Tiger habitat down from just a decade ago

...red. The group also stands ready to support the 13 countries with tigers in a regional effort to save the speci...s authors suggest that the heads of state of those countries convene a "tiger summit" to elevate tiger conservation on their countries' agendas. "Saving wild ti...

Five surprising facts about starvation that could change the international agenda

...ards conflict and natural disaster, many people in countries less affected by such events struggle with some of...untry suffer from wasting. Gross and Webb analyzed countries with the highest child mortality rates and child wasting rates. Based on their assessment of the dat...

Wild bees and the flowers they pollinate are disappearing together

...f the pollinators. This difference between the countries suggests the declines in pollinators and plants ar... prove a global decline in pollination, but in two countries at least there is strong evidence that both wild pollinators and the wildflowers that they visit are...

Hopkins researchers develop new tool to watch real-time chemical activity in cells

...are drugs approved by regulatory agencies in other countries or are other clinically relevant chemicals. "If we can find a new activity for a known drug, this may lead to a new use or a new way of thinking about that drug," says Zhang, who hopes to test the rest of the chemicals in the collection soon for th...

Despite acidity, orange juice could still be a source of foodborne disease

...sumed and more importation of orange products from countries that might not have sanitary guidelines or regulations as strict as ours. It could also be due to better surveillance by public health officials and more sensitive detection methods. "Is it new, or were we just not looking for it 20 years ago? I t...

Bt cotton in China fails to reap profit after seven years

...overty and undernourishment problems in developing countries if properly used. The study - the first to look a...ndary pest problems could become a major threat in countries where Bt cotton has been widely planted. Because of its touted efficiency, four major cotton-growin...

Super-sized cassava plants may help fight hunger in Africa

...oots. The findings could help ease hunger in many countries where people rely heavily on the cassava plant (Ma...ide. Sayre said he hopes to offer these plants to countries where cassava is an important crop. The current study appears in the online early issue of the Plan...

Radiation-killed bacteria vaccine induces broad immune response in mice

... vaccine is liable to spoil and become useless. In countries with reliable electricity, maintaining the cold chain is rarely a problem. The same is not true in less developed countries. Vaccines made from whole, irradiated bacteria, freeze-dried into an easy-to-transport powder, could be reconstituted just bef...

Parasitic worms used to fight bowel disease

...n developed societies. When people from developing countries move to developed ones, their incidence of the disease tends to increase. "We know from veterinary medicine that many bacterial and protozoan pathogens, especially those that multiply inside of cells, elicit an immune response in the host that would...

Afghanistan to protect wildlife and wild lands

...lso inspire local communities and even neighboring countries to work together to protect the region's natural heritage." Afghanistan's natural landscape is dominated by the Hindu Kush mountain range and the Pamir Knot, a region where the Hindu Kush, Karakoram, Tien Shan, and Himalayan ranges come together to ...

Vegetables inhibit growth of prostate cancer in mice with human tumors

...ooted and 170 percent in Laysan albatrosses. Many countries do not regulate the manufacture and use of PCBs an...ably reflect the ongoing use of these chemicals in countries that border the Pacific," Finkelstein said. The biggest current threat to albatross populations in...

Albatross study shows regional differences in ocean contamination

...ooted and 170 percent in Laysan albatrosses. Many countries do not regulate the manufacture and use of PCBs an...ably reflect the ongoing use of these chemicals in countries that border the Pacific," Finkelstein said. The biggest current threat to albatross populations in...

Study may help slay 'Yellow Monster'

...our Corners area of the Southwest and for war-torn countries and the military, which uses depleted uranium for anti-tank weapons, tank armor and ammunition rounds. Depleted uranium is what is left over when most of the highly radioactive isotopes of uranium are removed. "The health effects of uranium really h...

Illegal trade is propelling rare turtle toward extinction, new report

...nd exotic pet dealers in the U.S., Japan and other countries where the turtles are still in high demand. "We hope that by increasing awareness and enforcement capacity of these agencies, poachers will find it increasingly difficult to smuggle out any of the turtles that remain on Roti Island," said Chris S...

New Research Shows Artificial Light at Night Stimulates Breast Cancer Growth in Laboratory Mice

... rise in breast cancer incidence in industrialized countries like the United States. The National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, agencies of the federal National Institutes of Health, provided funding to researchers at the Bassett Research Institute of the Mary I...

New vaccine for condition that kills 500,000 children a year

...rck has filed for licensure of RotaTeq in 50 other countries and plans to evaluate the use of RotaTeq in the developing world. The Merck study appeared in the same issue of the New England Journal of Medicine as a study of a rotavirus vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline. An accompanying editorial underscores...

Scientist warns of threat to last stronghold of endangered turtle

...interest with more than 100,000 hits from over 150 countries on the site www.seaturtle.org/tracking each month. It's thought that globally more than 50,000 leatherback turtles are incidentally caught by fisherman trawling for other species each year. Of these, thousands are thought to die as a result. Appr...

Genetically engineered mosquitoes show resistance to dengue fever virus

...ocedure. Dengue fever is endemic in more than 100 countries in Africa, the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific. The virus is transmitted to people by mosquitoes of the species Aedes aegypti. The World Health Organization estimates 50 million cases of dengue infection ea...

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